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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE granting to the Northern Texas Traction
Comp ny, a corporation, and its assigns the rierht and franchise
to construct, maintain an(' operate a line of electric street
railway over and upon certain streets in the City of Fort Worth
and to erect and maintain poles and overhead trolley wires thereon.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the
City of Fort Worth.
SECTION I: That in consideration of the stipulations
and agreements hereinafter contained to be kept and performed by
the Northern Texas Traction Company, and its assigns, and subject
to the limitations herein set forth, the City of Fort Worth, a
minicipal corporation in the County of Tarrant and State of Texas,
has grantea, L. daes h: reb,r -r-nt unto the said Northern ^eras
Traction Company, a corporation of Fort Worth, Tarrant County,
Texas, and its assigns, the right to construct, maintain and oper-
ate a line of electric street railway tog:ther with the necessary
switches, side tracks and turn-outs over, along aid upon the
following streets and portions of streets ithin the corporate
limits of the City of Fort Worth, as an extension of and connection
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with the present line of electric street railway operated by said
Northern Texas Traction Company over Hemphill Street in said City,
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Beginning at a point. of connection with the present line
of street railway and tracks of the Northern Texas Traction Company
at the intersection of Hemphill Street and Bowie Street in said
City; thence Westerly over, along and upon Bowie Street to South
Adams Street; thence southerly over, long and upon South Adams
Street to Shaw Street, a total distance of approximately 3500 feet.
2.
This franchise and grant of the right to extend said line er
the streets just above mentioned to be subject to and runKur-
rent with the oriLinal frhise heretofore ntad .,, the City
of Fort Worth to the Northern Texas Traction Comparq &nd its
assi ns to construct, maintain and operate its line 'of, street
railway over said Hemphill Street.
SECTION 2. That upon the conditions, limitations and
considerations aforesaid and hereinafter mentioned, the said
City of Fort Worth does hereby grant unto the said Northern
Texas Traction Company and its assigns the right to construct,
equip, maintain and operate along, upon and over each of said
streets and porti^ns of streets as set forth in section 1 hereof,
a line. of electric street oax trackz with aka
side tracks and turn-outs, and all necessary poles and wires and
over-head equipment for propelling electric street cars by overhead
trolley system and the right to operate street cars along and
over said tracks, to carry goods and passengers for hire upon and
over said tracks and to do such other things necessarily incident
to the rights and privileges in this ordinance granted.
Section 3. All the tracks land under the provisions of
this ordinance, except switches and side tracks and turnouts, and
except places where turn-outs are ade, or where the street is
parti'.°117 000tMied bw Aome -o" :r of •ee+ cmrar trac' ,na" he laid
and kept as nearly in the middle of the street as is practical and
the top of each rail of each and every part of said track and the
spaces between the rails shall be kept level with the street along-
side; and the tracks, wires, poles and all other equipment shall
be of standard quality and so constructed and maintained that
travel upon said streets shall not"be unnecessarily obstructed or
endangered at any place and all matters of ennstruction and mainte-
nance shall be subject to the approval of the City Engineer and
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3.
City Electrician and Board of City Commissioners; all tracks
on portions of streets that are now or shall hereafter be paved
shall be of first class rails of such kind as shall ue 3esignated.
bS tv�, City Engineer and shall be laid in such manner as to make
the least- possible obstruction td vehicles and shall be maint- ined
in that condition.
SECTION 4: Said Northern Texas Traction Company or its
assigns shall at its or their own sole cost and expense pave and
re-pave or otherwise surface and re-surface and keep constantly
in good order and condition, ith the'same material with which
the street on the outside is paved and surfaced, all that part
of each street occupied by it or that which lies between the
rails of said tracks and for 18 inches on each side thereof,
and said Northern Texas Traction Company or its assigns shall
conform its or their tracks or any part thereof to the proper
- grade of each street and change the level of said tracks as
often and whenever the grade of any such street is changed sd
tjat every part of each track shall always be kept at the duly
established grade line or as near thereto as th- surface of the
grade of the street outside thereof ill permit.
Section 5. Said Northern Texas Traction Company, its
successors and assigns, do her by agree to indemnify P.nd hold
the s id City of Fort Worth harmless
to pay off and discharge, or to repay to the said City, all da4
mages, claims, judgments, attorneys' fees and other costs
and expenses rendered ag-Anst, or incurred, or paid out by the
s id City by reason of injuries either to persons or property
occasioned as the proximate reallit of anything done or permitted
of in any way proximately arising out of the construction,
operation, ma'ntenance upon the above streets and thorough-
fares of t tracks, poles or sires of s id Company.
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SECTION 6 ; The City Engineer shall direct and
point out places at which poles er eted under this ordinance
shallbe set; provided always that no poles shall be set in
viol .tion oft any City ordinance.
SECTION 7: 1? 4he 11mitatim rtrtd -
a <t; nnncontained in th_ ordinance shall continue in force and
s'., 11 govern and control in addition to the provisions of this
ordinance the operation and c-•nst-ruction of the contemplated ex-
tension of the present line of railway as hereby granted re-
spectively.
SECTION 8: That this ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
I, C. S. Snow, City- Secretary of the City oir Fort
Worth, Texas, do hereby certify that the vithin and foregoing
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°'T'i: was duly presented and unanimously passed and adopted by
the Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort ..orth, at a ses-
sion of said Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort
Worth, at a session of s id Board held
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.itness my hand under the corpor to seal of the City
City Secret_ .
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